May 29, 2003 9:25 AM

XML formatted resumes
Posted by Jason Butlerat 9:25 AM

Here's one from O'Reilly for all you geeks out there: Using XML/XLST to craft different resumes for different positions.

At the time my résumé is generated, I can specify (depending on the position I'm seeking) to output information on the books covering XPath, or just the one which covers XSLT, or just the one which covers XPointer...all by telling the XRL transformation to attend just to the corresponding targets attribute values. If, on the other hand, I limited the output just to targets attributes with a value of XML , then neither of those two books' information would appear.

Jargon aside, it's a very good idea to craft specialized resumes for different positions. You might be able to get away with cutting and pasting, though, as opposed to writing your own resume-o-matic program.
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